Good showing by Jha this week, hopefully he can keep it up during the fall. Is it just me or do you find that Canadian Junior Players do not enter enough international events? With Krainik and White being the exceptions. I mean just look at Nguyen, this guy has a chance to be huge and for some reason he has only played 5 or 6 itf events all year. Does that make any sense?

I watched some of Obry/Collarini, Obry looks a fairly handy player, hit some nice backhands.

As for Nguyen, it looks to me like he filled up his allotment of tournaments for his 14-15 year in February, so he couldn't play anything between then and May. Dunno why he hasn't played more ITF events since, though. :shrug:

Gonzil

09-04-2009, 10:46 PM

As for Nguyen, it looks to me like he filled up his allotment of tournaments for his 14-15 year in February, so he couldn't play anything between then and May. Dunno why he hasn't played more ITF events since, though. :shrug:

They sent him off to play some of the European U16 tournaments this summer. I get the impression that more of the Europeans play in age group tournaments rather than going 100% to ITF tournaments, so maybe under Borfiga's advice, the National Training Centre is following a similar sort of strategy.

Jha and Haessig, on the other hand, I thought were sent to a huge number of clay ITF tournaments where they don't seem to be able to win anything. I don't know why they made them play so much clay when they don't do well there - it must be so demoralizing.

Emeraldhands

09-04-2009, 11:49 PM

Ya, I was wondering the same thing. Out of like the ten or twelve tournaments that they have played this year, like eight of them have been on clay.